Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has died, according to her foundation. She was 86.

Colvin also became a named plaintiff in the landmark lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation on Montgomery’s buses.

Fu arrestata nel 1955 in Alabama per aver violato le leggi sulla segregazione razziale su un autobus (ANSA)

Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person months before the famous case of Rosa Parks.

Colvin's arrest for not giving up her seat on a segregated bus helped ignite the modern civil rights movement.

Als Jugendliche blieb sie 1955 in einem Südstaaten-Bus mutig sitzen. Eine von ihr eingereichte Klage veränderte die USA. Doch lange stand die nun mit 86 Jahren verstorbene…

Colvin refused to give up seat to white woman in Alabama in 1955, nine months before Rosa Parks’ act of defiance

Nel 1955, mesi prima di Rosa Parks, venne arrestata per non aver ceduto il suo posto a una donna bianca su un autobus a Montgomery

In 1956, Colvin became one of four plaintiffs in a case that successfully challenged Montgomery’s segregated bus seating as unconstitutional.

Colvin had been studying Black history in school on March 2, 1955, when she was detained after she refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a bus in Montgomery – the same…

Colvin's act of defiance occurred months before Rosa Parks gained international recognition for a similar stand

Claudette Colvin, a civil rights activist who was arrested in 1955 for refusing to give up her bus seat to a White woman in segregated Alabama, has died, according to her…